He was not appointed to a university position, but worked as an upper secondary school teacher. He was a teacher at Heltberg Latin School (Heltbergs Studentfabrikk) which was operated by Henrik Heltberg (1806-1873) in Christiania (now Oslo). He then taught in Levanger and Kristiansand. From 1874-1893 he was a teacher in Fredrikshald, then in Skien.
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He helped translating the Heimskringla to Landsmål, and published books in Norwegian and global history.[5] He then published two large dictionaries in 1908 and 1914.[1]